Boyer Lectures - Lecturers

Lecturers

• 2012 - Professor Marcia Langton - "The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom"
• 2011 - Geraldine Brooks - "At Home in the World" or "The Idea of Home"
• 2010 - Professor Glyn Davis - "The Republic of Learning: higher education transforms Australia"
• 2009 - General Peter Cosgrove - "A Very Australian Conversation"
• 2008 - Rupert Murdoch - "A Golden Age of Freedom"
• 2007 - Graeme Clark - "Restoring The Senses"
• 2006 - Ian Macfarlane - "The Search For Stability"
• 2005 - Archbishop Peter Jensen - "The Future of Jesus"
• 2004 - Peter Conrad "Tales of Two Hemispheres"
• 2003 - Owen Harries "Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony"
• 2002 - Ian Castles (Not delivered due to bereavement)
• 2001 - Prof Geoffrey Blainey "This Land is all Horizons: Australian Fears and Visions"
• 2000 - Chief Justice Murray Gleeson "The Rule of Law and the Constitution"
• 1999 - Dr Inga Clendinnen "True Stories"
• 1998 - David Malouf "A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness"
• 1997 - Martin Krygier "Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Views"
• 1996 - Prof Pierre Ryckmans "Aspects of Culture"
• 1995 - Eva Cox "A Truly Civil Society"
• 1994 - Kerry Stokes "Advance Australia Where?"
• 1993 - Presented by six Indigenous Australians in the International Year of the World's Indigenous People (IYWIP): Getano Lui, Dr Ian Anderson, Jeannie Bell, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Dot West and Noel Pearson "Voices of the Land"
• 1992 - Geoffrey Bolton "A View From the Edge: An Australian Stocktaking (history)"
• 1991 - Fay Gale and Ian Lowe "Changing Australia (changes through technology)"
• 1990 - Tom Fitzgerald "Between Life and Economics"
• 1989 - Max Charlesworth "Life, Death, Genes and Ethics: Biotechnology and Bioethics"
• 1988 - "Postscripts: eight previous Boyer lecturers revisit their lectures"
• 1987 - Davis McCaughey "Piecing Together a Shared Vision" (multicultural Australia)
• 1986 - Eric Wilmot "Australia The Last Experiment"
• 1985 - Helen Hughes "Australia In a Developing World"
• 1984 - Shirley Hazzard "Coming of Age in Australia"
• 1983 - Justice Michael Kirby "The Judges"
• 1982 - Sir Bruce Williams "Living With Technology"
• 1981 - Prof John Passmore "The Limits Of Government"
• 1980 - Bernard Smith "The Spectre Of Truganini"
• 1979 - Bob Hawke "The Resolution Of Conflict"
• 1978 - Sir Gustav Nossal "Nature's Defence"
• 1977 - Douglas Stewart "Writers of The Bulletin"
• 1976 - Manning Clark "A Discovery Of Australia"
• 1975 - Dame Roma Mitchell "The Web Of Criminal Law"
• 1974 - Hugh Stretton "Housing & Government"
• 1973 - Prof Sir Keith Hancock "Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow"
• 1972 - Prof Dexter Dunphy "The Challenge of Change"
• 1971 - Prof Basil Hetzel "Life and Health in Australia"
• 1970 - Dr H. C. Coombs "Role of Institutions In Our Lives"
• 1969 - Sir Zelman Cowen "The Private Man"
• 1968 - Prof WEH Stanner "After the Dreaming"
• 1967 - Robin Boyd "Artificial Australia"
• 1966 - Sir Macfarlane Burnet "Biology and the Appreciation Of Life"
• 1965 - Prof Sir John Eccles "The Brain and the Person"
• 1964 - George Ivan Smith "Along the Edge Of Peace"
• 1963 - Prof J. D. B. Miller "Australian and Foreign Policy"
• 1962 - Prof W. G. K. Duncan "In Defence Of the Common Man"
• 1961 - Prof W. D. Borrie "The Crowding World"
• 1960 - Prof Julius Stone "Law and Policy In the Quest For Survival"
• 1959 - Dr David Forbes Martyn "Society In the Space Age"